See essay questions to accompany the readings below
A MUSLIM WOMAN, A STORY OF SEX by Alan Riding | June 20, 2005 New York Times book review of The Almond TAKING THE VEIL (image a; image b) by Jane Kramer (the New Yorker) THE SECULAR PRINCIPLE by Jean Bauberot ISLAM IN/OF FRANCE: DILEMMAS OF TRANSLOCALITY by John R. Bowen IMMIGRATION IN POSTWAR FRANCE by Tony McNeill AU COEUR DE L'AFFAIRE | English translation par Luis Cardoso DE L'AFFICHAGE DE L'APPARTENANCE RELIGIEUSE DANS L'ESPACE PUBLIC | English translation par Alain Seksig LE FOULARD NEST PAS MUSULMAN par Odon Vallet | English translation FRENCH AGAINST FRENCH: THE UNEASY INCORPORATION OF BEURS INTO FRENCH SOCIETY par Hélène Jaccomard RAI-RELATED VOCABULARY KEY EVENTS IN THE ISLAMIC HEADSCARF CONTROVERSY KEY EVENTS IN THE CONTROVERSY OVER STATE FUNDING OF ISLAMIC SCHOOLS IN GREAT BRITAIN SECOND FRENCH CONSULATE IN U.S. AGREES TO ALLOW MUSLIM HEADSCARF IN PASSPORT PHOTO North Carolina resident still denied the right to wear Islamic scarf for national ID | April 25, 2000 THE ARRANGED MARRIAGE LAW IN FRANCE Links and discussion questions
A MUSLIM WOMAN, A STORY OF SEX by Alan Riding | June 20, 2005 New York Times book review of The Almond
TAKING THE VEIL (image a; image b) by Jane Kramer (the New Yorker)
THE SECULAR PRINCIPLE by Jean Bauberot ISLAM IN/OF FRANCE: DILEMMAS OF TRANSLOCALITY by John R. Bowen IMMIGRATION IN POSTWAR FRANCE by Tony McNeill AU COEUR DE L'AFFAIRE | English translation par Luis Cardoso DE L'AFFICHAGE DE L'APPARTENANCE RELIGIEUSE DANS L'ESPACE PUBLIC | English translation par Alain Seksig
FRENCH AGAINST FRENCH: THE UNEASY INCORPORATION OF BEURS INTO FRENCH SOCIETY par Hélène Jaccomard
RAI-RELATED VOCABULARY
KEY EVENTS IN THE ISLAMIC HEADSCARF CONTROVERSY
KEY EVENTS IN THE CONTROVERSY OVER STATE FUNDING OF ISLAMIC SCHOOLS IN GREAT BRITAIN
SECOND FRENCH CONSULATE IN U.S. AGREES TO ALLOW MUSLIM HEADSCARF IN PASSPORT PHOTO North Carolina resident still denied the right to wear Islamic scarf for national ID | April 25, 2000
THE ARRANGED MARRIAGE LAW IN FRANCE Links and discussion questions